Another excellent point here!
Maybe this will become it's own thread topic sometime: Book vs Movie version.
Original vs. Remake: Which is better?
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Maybe this will become it's own thread topic sometime: Book vs Movie version.
In regard to movies -definitely original. Music too. It doesn't take much talent to remake a song by the original artist. Not the least bit impressed with remakes.
I like that word that you coined - BUYbles. I admit that I have been doing some buying these past few years. I find that it is helpful as it may give you a fresh view or perspective on certain passages of scripture.
Haven't watched TV for years. That AV may be worth a go depending on what it actually is. I'm surmising that you may be referring to Audio Video or something like that.
I'm NOT going crazy!!!
I recently started questioning if these were indeed one of the many items that has had name changing / rebranding over the years.
I don't know when they changed it, but it seems I remember Sugar Smacks but also Honey Smacks, and I think for a period of time I remembered it being called simply SMACKS.
Well, I just looked up the words "Smacks cereal" and some of the history information that came up talks about European and UK markets calling it simply SMACKS, which now this makes more sense since my dad was military when I was a young kids and we lived for a while in Europe
Glad to have this FINALLY cleared up!
The Sound of Music comes to mind.
I never saw the original 1959 Broadway play (though learned it was recorded, so I might have to find it and give it a watch),
but aside from that (and maybe including that, I won't know unless I see it) I don't think any version could ever be as good as the one staring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
I never saw the 2013 Live version with Carrie Underwood. I just don't think I could watch it without critiquing through the whole thing.
I have sat through numerous high school and community productions of it though. Some have been wonderful (given the limitations of stage space and budgets) and others complete, disappointing flops.
I never saw the original 1959 Broadway play (though learned it was recorded, so I might have to find it and give it a watch),
but aside from that (and maybe including that, I won't know unless I see it) I don't think any version could ever be as good as the one staring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
I never saw the 2013 Live version with Carrie Underwood. I just don't think I could watch it without critiquing through the whole thing.
I have sat through numerous high school and community productions of it though. Some have been wonderful (given the limitations of stage space and budgets) and others complete, disappointing flops.
especially on shows like American Idol
Karaoke is fun, but I don't think you should make an idol of it.
Many such threads have come and gone in the years I have been here, and some got
quite involved in the details of this and that, depending on who was talking about
what... Even threads on books that have turned into talking about books turned into
movies or miniseries, with ensuing discussions about which were best and who played
whatever character best. Sigh. There were some great conversations there
I remember Tinuviel and Galatea with much fondness
We shared a love of Jane Austen, mostly, among other authors
Galatea even started a book club thread... ***
Jane Austen. Stellar. What can I say? I love her work. She died fairly young, only about six books published, read most of them many times, seen the movies and mini-series often as well over the last few decades. When I was talking to one of the younger ladies here a while back, I was inspired to watch the BBC mini series on Persuasion, then read the book (again), then watch the movie, all within about a week. Another much younger woman, her and I, the three of us, discussed the pros and cons of the novels, and movie adaptations, in threads here over a period of time. One of them even started a book club, but it eventually fizzled when 1984 was chosen by popular vote.
Jane Austen writes more from a stand point of cultural norms and niceties, and how people function under the strictures of such, but from a more genteel perspective, it is not poor people scrambling to survive, it is people of means but little opportunity, and the times did not allow for women to inherit, so her stories did often entail someone going from being well off to suddenly facing the prospect of having to survive on much less due to the laws of the land and other people's greed, or, conversely, the poor cousin being taken in by her more well off relatives, only to be treated as lesser than, though she was superior in intellect, feelings, and manners. wiki says this:
Jane Austen (December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.
Much of Ayn Rand's fiction I have read multiple times also. Even Atlas Shrugged, @ over a thousand pages, six times, though I skip a certain part of the book near the end each time, when the protagonist goes into a sixty page soliloquy, it is so much her real-life credo of fiction I can only read so much of it and then I must get on with the story LOL. I think it is the first book I ever read in e-form, too, going from my computer to my new kindle paperwhite, which had so many spelling errors that I sometimes had to find my place in the PDF online to see what they were really saying. They made a movie which did not do the book justice. Most do not.
I read Pride and Prejudice sitting at my computer, too, my desk top. That is the best of Jane Austen
Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her screenplay adaptation from Jane's Sense and Sensibility, which she also starred in. I just saw that again recently as well. You might have to like period pieces to appreciate her art, though her characters are timeless in their humanity. Austen was a preacher's kid. I wish I could express myself they way they do in her books 
Sometimes these remakes are superior, though true purists may not be able to bring themselevs to depart from their love of the original as is the case with some with Pride and Prejudice CBC mini-series version over Ang Lee's much shorter movie, which I do actually prefer for quite a few reasons.I tend to go through periods with reading. It can get out of hand. When I first got my kindle paperwhite, I was reading about four books a week. That gets to be a bit much. I don't care for trashy stuff, or poorly written literature, so that helps to limit me
My apologies as I copied this from two different previous posts, as I have to start preparing to go out very soon.
Please start one
I could discuss Gone with the Wind till the cows come home
Moo!!
Just kidding!
Never mind me and please carry on.
Quittin' time!
I's the foreman. I says when it's quittin time at Tara
QUITTIN' TIME!!!!
Also...
Miss Scarlett, I's powerful hungry
Prissy gets scared when they reach Twelve Oaks and Scarlett finds a cow. She takes it to Tara so they can have milk for Melly's baby.
I's the foreman. I says when it's quittin time at Tara
QUITTIN' TIME!!!!
Also...
Miss Scarlett, I's powerful hungry
Prissy gets scared when they reach Twelve Oaks and Scarlett finds a cow. She takes it to Tara so they can have milk for Melly's baby.
The window scene with the curtains...
There was also the Sound of Music where Maria makes the childrens clothes out of her curtains.
I always thought that scene had copied Gone with the Wind. I don't know if the REAL Maria Von Trapp made clothes out of curtains, but can't ask her because she's now passed away. Maybe could ask the children (now grown up, possibly with grandchildren of their own)
There was also the Sound of Music where Maria makes the childrens clothes out of her curtains.
I always thought that scene had copied Gone with the Wind. I don't know if the REAL Maria Von Trapp made clothes out of curtains, but can't ask her because she's now passed away. Maybe could ask the children (now grown up, possibly with grandchildren of their own)
Perhaps it's been done going back to ancient history. Like is that where the Greek and Roman fashion trends came from?
I'd love to see the Sound of Music performed live.
I still haven't been to the movie singalongs they have from time to time.
I have the dvd, and its got captions, but you need to do it with a lot of people, and have at least seven children with you.
I still haven't been to the movie singalongs they have from time to time.
I have the dvd, and its got captions, but you need to do it with a lot of people, and have at least seven children with you.
Or you could start itPlease start one
I could discuss Gone with the Wind till the cows come home
I love making threads, but in case you hadn't noticed...
I have a hard time keeping up with them
